The Tampa Bay Lightning and St. Louis Blues were confronted by the reality that neither team was playing its best hockey going into Game 4 of its respective conference final series.
Both responded with impressive efforts that left both series tied after four games.
The Lightning still have a few questions to answer because they jumped on the backs of Ryan Callahan, Tyler Johnson and Jonathan Drouin to build a 4-0 lead on the Pittsburgh Penguins before giving up three third-period goals and hanging on for a 4-3 victory on Friday.
The Lightning responded to back-to-back losses by dictating the pace against the Penguins and opening up a big lead.